[TheWildJacko]

Why can Shaw be relentlessly criticized but any criticism of Tara is met with profanity and claims of troll?  Why can football threads be filled to the brim with insults of Shaw but one post questioning Tara's coaching decisions is brutally attacked?

FWIW I don't think it was coaching.  Tara can't go into the game and make the shots.  The players had a sub-par shooting game from almost everywhere on the court and there's not too much the coaches can do about that.  It happens and you can never predict when it's going to happen.

I feel it was a great season for the team.  It's very difficult to win an NC.  So many things can go wrong.  I appreciate when any Stanford sports team makes it to the final four.  Having said that, I don't have a problem with criticism of a coach/player as long as it is a genuine and honest opinion.

There are some cardboarders who can vouch for my connection and loyalty to Stanford.  I try to be what I consider objective in evaluating coaches/players and that doesn't seem to be tolerated well on the WBB or WVB threads.  My warning level was increased for a few comments on the WVB thread which were far less incendiary than some comments here.

I don't want to be banned but if I'm banned for this post, so be it.

I have no problem with anyone criticizing Tara’s coaching decisions. I don’t think she coached her best game last night. If they had questioned her coaching decisions in the game, or had anything specific at all about the game, I actually probably would have agreed with them. But that’s not what they did (at least not in the first post). Instead, they come in and say she’s not a great coach (not just not a great coach, but a “meh” coach, which is pretty insulting, and come on, read the room—that’s just a d!ckish thing to say following a season-ending Final Four loss), how they’ve been saying all week that we’re going to lose because Geno is a much better coach (basically gloating that they were right), and that all our wins are due to her recruiting, but that the recruiting is probably due to the school and not her. So, a whole bunch of massively unfounded claims with nothing of substance regarding the actual game.

So yes, I responded harshly, and while I normally don’t like to use profanity on message boards, I actually think that comment deserved it.

ETA: They also later said they believe “Success in college hoops, like all college sports, is more a function of talent than coaching,” which in addition to being completely contradictory to their previous posts—do we blame our loss on the coaching or do we blame it on the players’ lack of talent (because if success isn’t a function of coaching then why blame the coach)?—is also just totally not based in reality. Good coaching matters. Talent matters. You need both to win, plus a lot of luck. Plenty of loaded teams have underperformed because they don’t have a Tara, Geno or Pat at the helm. And also, good coaches attract good players. Do they think Stanford just magically became a WBB superpower on its own?

[TheWildJacko]

Why can Shaw be relentlessly criticized but any criticism of Tara is met with profanity and claims of troll?  Why can football threads be filled to the brim with insults of Shaw but one post questioning Tara's coaching decisions is brutally attacked?

FWIW I don't think it was coaching.  Tara can't go into the game and make the shots.  The players had a sub-par shooting game from almost everywhere on the court and there's not too much the coaches can do about that.  It happens and you can never predict when it's going to happen.

I feel it was a great season for the team.  It's very difficult to win an NC.  So many things can go wrong.  I appreciate when any Stanford sports team makes it to the final four.  Having said that, I don't have a problem with criticism of a coach/player as long as it is a genuine and honest opinion.

There are some cardboarders who can vouch for my connection and loyalty to Stanford.  I try to be what I consider objective in evaluating coaches/players and that doesn't seem to be tolerated well on the WBB or WVB threads.  My warning level was increased for a few comments on the WVB thread which were far less incendiary than some comments here.

I don't want to be banned but if I'm banned for this post, so be it.

I have no problem with anyone criticizing Tara’s coaching decisions. I don’t think she coached her best game last night. If they had questioned her coaching decisions in the game, or had anything specific at all about the game, I actually probably would have agreed with them. But that’s not what they did (at least not in the first post). Instead, they come in and say she’s not a great coach (not just not a great coach, but a “meh” coach, which is pretty insulting, and come on, read the room—that’s just a d!ckish thing to say following a season-ending Final Four loss), how they’ve been saying all week that we’re going to lose because Geno is a much better coach (basically gloating that they were right), and that all our wins are due to her recruiting, but that the recruiting is probably due to the school and not her. So, a whole bunch of massively unfounded claims with nothing of substance regarding the actual game.

So yes, I responded harshly, and while I normally don’t like to use profanity on message boards, I actually think that comment deserved it.

ETA: They also later said they believe “Success in college hoops, like all college sports, is more a function of talent than coaching,” which in addition to being completely contradictory to their previous posts—do we blame our loss on the coaching or do we blame it on the players’ lack of talent (because if success isn’t a function of coaching then why blame the coach)?—is also just totally not based in reality. Good coaching matters. Talent matters. You need both to win, plus a lot of luck. Plenty of loaded teams have underperformed because they don’t have a Tara, Geno or Pat at the helm. And also, good coaches attract good players. Do they think Stanford just magically became a WBB superpower on its own?